We stopped our hard copy subscriptions.  We now get the Grants
Advisor online (its deadline listing is straightforward and easily
accessible), ARIS Arts and Humanities online (it lists opportunities
often not seen elsewhere), and Federal Grants and Contracts
Weekly via email (I basically use this to create and send NSF
announcements rather than having to compile summaries myself
since NSF Custom News just gives you the title and website).  For
our business faculty we also subscribe online to the AACSB
Business and Management Education Funding Alert.  Few hits
come out of that--you know how interested business faculty are in
grants!--but that way we maintain a prescence and no one can say
we aren't trying!  For ARIS, Grants Advisor, the AACSB Alert I
send out email notices letting people know that new issues are
available and give them the website with the subject index or table
of contents so they know what to expect.

I agree that SPIN and SMARTS are extremely useful but they have
their limitations as well, and especially in the Arts and Humanities,
should not be relied upon to provide totally comprehensive coverage
of opportunites, nor is that their intention I think.

We share FC Search on CD-ROM with our development office and
have cancelled the hard copy Foundation Directory.  Those books
just sat on the shelf anyway because they are too cumbersome
and time consuming to use.

Good luck!

Michael Ludwick, CRA
Associate Director of Sponsored Programs
Grants and Research Administration
College of William & Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA  23187-8795
phone: 757.221.3485  fax: 757.221.4910
email: xxxxxx@wm.edu (NEW ADDRESS!)
website: http://www.wm.edu/AI/Grants
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